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Show Peso 6 Wednesday, December 14, 1977 V-i'"- -: By Brown NFL Football With one week remaining in the regular season, there are still four play-off berths open n the NFL. Since last week's action only one more team clinched a spot in post season play. The Oakland Raiders had little trouble with the Minnesota Vikings, defeating them 35-13. With this win, Oakland secured the AFC wildcard position while the Vikings have fallen into a tie with the Chicago Bears for first place in the NFC 1 Central Division. The Bears, who defeated Green Bay 21-10, would have to win their game with the Giants this coming weekend, while the Vikings would have to lose to Detroit, for Chicago to win their division. Otherwise, Minnesota would win thNFC Central. In the NFC East, the Washington Red Skins still have hope for a wildcard berth, as they eliminated the St. Louis Cardinals from contention conten-tion with a 28-20 victory. For the Redskins to make the playoffs, they would eed to couple a victory over Los Angeles with a Bear loss to the Giants, which seems unlikely. The Dallas Cowboys clinched the division title two weeks ago. In the NFC West, the Los Angeles Rams, who sewed up their division title a week ago, defeated Atlanta 2347. Moving onto the AFC, one finds things more confusing and more interesting. First looking at the Western Division, it is the Denver Broncos in the playoffs as division winner, and Oakland clinching the wildcard berth. The Central Division is another story as the Cincinnati Bengals have renewed their hopes for the playoffs play-offs by defeating the division-leading Pittsburgh Steelers, 17-10 in a game played Saturday. Should Cincinnati win and the Steelers lose next week, the Bengals would win the division and vice versa. But should these two teams end up tied for the lead, the Bengals would end up tied for the lead, the Bengals would win the division 4hie to head-to-head play in which the Bengals xMitscored the Steelers 31-30. Last, and by no means least, we come to the AFC East Division race. With only one regular season game to play, the Baltimore Colts, the Miami Dolphins and the New England Patriots are all tied for first place with identical 04 records. Of these three teaofty Baltimore controls their own destiny. If they beat the Patriots this weekend, they will go to the playoffs play-offs as the AFC East champions. But if the Patriots win and the Dolpins win, the Dolphins will take the division crown. The only way for New England to gain the play-offs is to defeat Baltimore and have the Dolphins lose to Buffalo. TOMLIGARE MOUNT AIR MALL 6494161 "See me for car ksze, life, kealth aql basksss iflsaraccs? STAfl f AIM INSUIANCI Stall ff hsurMct Companies .Horn Offices: Blooningfon. Illinois U.S. -Ski-Team Wins Injunction In a judgment handed down December 9, the New York State Supreme Court granted the U.S. Ski Team the injunction it had sought to prevent ABC-TV from airing in the U.S. the ski racing events it is currently filming in Europe. Said USST Executive Director Bill Traeger of the court decision which was based on the USST's claim that it had the right to grant exclusive broadcast privileges of the Team in the U.S., "We are relieved about the decision which will enable us to fulfill our contract with CBS. It removed, the possibility of serious cutbacks to our development and racing programs which were in jeopardy." Warren Hellman, president of the U.S. Ski Educational Foundation, stated, "Ownership of the rights to permit broadcasting of FIS-sanctioned events in the United States is one of the most important im-portant tangible assets owned by the U.S. Ski Team and the U.S. Ski Association. Violation of these rights would have destroyed an enormously valuable property right and would have put into question our budgets, particularly in the developmental area, for the forseeable J.V. Cagers Victorious future." Last spring, the USST sold exclusive broadcast rights to CBS for $550,000 over three years, not including the Olympics. ABC, which had offered $40,000 for several events in the upcoming season, bought hill rights from the organizers of six European FIS federation Internationale Inter-nationale de Ski events which permitted permit-ted them to film on location. ABC then informed in-formed the Ski Team that they intended to show those events on American television, claiming that its purchase of hill rights gave it broadcasting rights as well. The Ski Team argued before the New York State Supreme Court that ABC's threatened action would interfere with their ability fo fulfill their contract with CBS. The loss of revenue from the CBS contract would have threatened important im-portant development, training and racing programs. ABC appealed the State Supreme Court's action and arguments on the appeal ap-peal will be heard December 15 at the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court in Manhattan. I ujhits pirn m toumg esoTiRssa I Citizens' Race I Saturday s V. AT THE GOLF COURSE i The Park Citv iunior var sity basketball team fared as well as the varsity last week, posting wins over North Summit and Piute. North Summit In Friday's North Summit game, the Mini Miners took a 18-15 halftime lead and went on to a 50-43 victory despite a fourth quarter comeback surge by the Coalville cagers. cag-ers. North Summit managed to tie the score in the final period but the Miners, led by Marty Cowin's strong performance per-formance under the basket, held on for the win. Cowih paced Park City, registering 15 points before he fouled out. Jeff Murnin and Scott Evans scored nine points each while Mickey Henrion had eight. North Summit's Doug Gar field was the game's leading scorer with 16 points. Piute Park City came from behind be-hind Saturday to down Piute 55-45. The Mini Miners trailed by two, 25-23 at the half, but they took advantage of a Piute cold streak which saw the fledgling Thunderbirds go scoreless for almost half the final quarter. Again, it was Cowin underneath, under-neath, aided by the outside shooting of Mickey Henrion, which made the difference. Cowin had 22 points on the night and Henrion had 10. Piute was led by 6'3' Shane Millet. The impressive freshman fresh-man tied Cowin for high scoring honors with 22 poin- Matmen Pin Grantsville The Park High wrestling team pinned a loss on Grantsville Friday, 48-17. The Miners registered six pins on their way to victory, highlighted by Cory Provost's Prov-ost's 23-second defeat of his Grantsville opponent in the 145-pound class. Other pins were posted by Marty Stagg in the 98-lb. class, Quinn Seiverts in the 105-lb. class, Doug Dean in the 126-lb. class, Bob Pace in the 132-lb. class and Garth Ford in the 167-lb. class. In addition, 155-lb. Cliff Martinez won by a narrow 7-6 decision and Steve Mann and Ted Smith were forfeit victors. In Junior varsity competition, competi-tion, Joel Amsted and Ted Smith won by pins in the 132-lb. and 138-lb. classes, respectively. Robert Malon-ey Malon-ey grappled to a 18-1 win in his 98-lb. class. Rec. B-Ball Moves To Winters The Park City School Board ' has granted the men's recreational rec-reational basketball league use of the gymnasium facilities facilit-ies at Carl Winters Middle School. Park City resident Bill Traeger, Executive Director of the U.S. Ski team, told the board the Memorial Building gym, presently ased for the basketball league, is both "inadequate" and "dangerous." "danger-ous." Superintendent Richard Goodworth commented that although "some had been hurt in the past" over quarrels pertaining to city and community facilities, he was willing "to go along with the basketball leagues," providing pro-viding they follow guidelines set down by the board. Winters principal Dr. Mark Simmons, Park High principal princi-pal Jack Dozier, and recreation recrea-tion directors Bruce Henderson Hender-son and Marilyn Rivas met with the superintendent last week and agreed to a list of requirements. 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